Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28
THE RAILROADS.
The Iexas and Pacific Strikes Water
in Its Artesian Well Here at
Depth Of 7S5 Feet.
Fort worth Has Set to Work to Get Road
to GreenviIle Sulphur
Springs-Nutes.


Homo Notes.
TrainmaSter S. T. Judy went west last
MIGHT with the last excursion tram.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande re
ceived several carloads more of steel
rails and ties yesterday.
Fine coal and an inexhaustible supply
Of pure water, what more does Fort
Worth need to bee me manufacturing
center.
MIR. j. ". Hyndman, formerly at Hous-
ton, is now in the Train Dispatcner's of
fee of the Texas and Pacific at Fort
Worth.
Four days more and the stockholders
of the Southern Kansas of Texas will
meet in Fort Worth, the main office of
the company and the initial point of the
road.
Mr.. Barry, one of the old reliable Train
Dispatches at the Union depot, was in
Dallas few days ago, ard his friends
were surprised TO note his fine physique,
brought about by our arteslan water and
pure air.
Three California excursion trains left
Fort Worth last night, one at 10 O'Clock
and two after midnight. There were
twelve Pullman sleepers in all. On Feb
ruary another, large excursion party
will leave this city.
Deputy United States Marshal Lum
Johnson, who was IN Fort Worth last
night from Gainesville, says the track OF
the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe is re
ported to be laid to a point twenty-five
miles north of Red river.
L. c. Gilfilan of Chicago, connected
with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincv,
was in the city Yesterday and says that
his company will probably build to Texas
before great while, but he could not
say whether the move would be made in
1887 or not.
On the Rio Grande division the Texas
and Pacific is putting down steel rails at
Putnam, Ranger, Delmar and between
Fort Worth and WeatheriOrd. Yesterday
$50 tons of steel was at the points men
toned, to be put down to-day, and more
on the way to be unloaded to-day.
Congressman Lanham has presented
the petition of the Texas Legislature ask
ing Congress to grant the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific right of way through
the Indian Territory, and that grant will
DE the first step toward carrying out
what General Dodge, President of the
Panhandle Construction Company, said in
an interview published in THE GAZETTE
were the plans of the company. One line
will run TO Ell Paso and another line will
run to Fort Worth.
The first carload OF Strawn coal
brought to this city was received yester
day by the Gas Company, and will be
tested in few days. Another car load
will be received to-day. The hosting
machinery is nearly in place at the mines,
and the dump-cars are ready for
work. The miners now have $50
tons ready for shipment. The coal de-
livered to the Gas Company was as tine a
carload of black diamonds as was ever
side tracked in Fort Worth.
It is said that before long the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe proposes to run e
fast mail train from Gainesville to Fort
Worth and Galveston, making forty miles
an hour. The track OF the road is of the
heaviest steel and fully equal to the
straip required. The Texas and Pacific
is also increasing It's time, and when the
steel rails purchased are all down it, too,
cen run fast mail trains. Then the great
north and south and east and west lines
will be the equals of any in the north.
Fort Worth was working yesterday for
that road to Grapevine and Plano, and
from there either to Sulphur Springs or
Greenville. The benefits of the road will
be great to all the places on the line and
to the farmers in the country through
which it passes. Grapevine and Plano
and the farmers can all aid Fort Worth
by securing the right of way at nominal
sum or, what would be better, by going
to work and with this city secure dona-
ton of the right of way from Fort Worth
to the other terminus. The cities men,
toned have expressed great desire to get
this road. VIII they now help our peo-
pie, who propose to see it built?
There was Joy in the camp of the Texas
and Pacific officials last night when Mr..
c. Fraley notified Trainmaster Judy that
at depth of 7S5 feet the drill in the
great artesian we'll had struck a magnitl- |
cent vein of water and in 8 second the |
pure fluid had gGshed up $50 feet, but |
the flow of the water had caused a strata |
of slate to cave in and stop the flow, the |
casing not being down as far as the water. |
Mr.. Fraley says to-day they will put |
down a trimmer, cut away the obstruction |
and lower the casing, and then the water |
will come. "By George, that's a great |
thing" ejscu1eed Mr.. Judy, and the
other officials agreed with him. A tele-
gram was at once sent to Colonel. |
L. L. Keller, Superintendent of
the Rio Grande division, notify
ing him of the gratifying result, and
the Big Springs office was told to deliver
the message ut once, and to wake him up,
II necessary, for be would be glad to hear